March 2013 Newsletter

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Created: 5 years and 8 months ago

Dear DuckDuckGo friends,

Thank you to everyone who nominated Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects for our donation consideration. We ended up donating to the OpenStreetMap Foundation, the Electronic Freedom Foundation, Riseup, F-Droid, NoScript, Cryptocat and JavaScript blocker. Our full post (with more info about each project) is up at http://duckduckgo.tumblr.com/post/44000299625/duckduckgo-foss-donations-2012

We have been hard at work at bringing you more and better instant answers via our open source instant answer platform (http://duckduckhack.com/). Expect some announcements soon, we hope in the next newsletter. For now check out the future of our instant answer goodies in these that just launched or were improved:

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Thank you all for the many comments, questions and suggestions. Particular thanks go to user x.15a2 for constantly monitoring, replying and helping so many users here. To continue these discussions, please head over to the DuckDuckGo subreddit.

Congratulations on your success and hope to see you reach 1000 employees :)

Keep up the great work! It's great to see DDG sticking to their open source pedigree and supporting projects like F-Droid. With an internet that's fast becoming a monopoly for a few that was once a utopia for many, it's very very refreshing to see. Well done, keep it up!

Coming to this a bit late, but as of Sep 2015 the yummly integration is a negative for duckduckgo recipe searches:

1) It’s an aggregator site w/o full content. Visiting a yummly page shows you the recipe’s ingredients, but it’s necessary to click through to the recipe’s original site to read instructions.

2) More troublingly, yummly requires you to sign in at certain points… which conflicts w/ DDG’s main attraction, the fact that you don’t track users.
(For example, search DDG for

Code:

omelet !yummly

and you’ll be sent to a page of omelet recipes on yummly.com. Click, for example, Baked Western Omelet and it’ll cover the page with a credential gate requiring you to sign in with facebook, google, or an email addy.)

Please, consider removing yummly integration… and I’d suggest thinking about a set of criteria DDG partner sites must adhere to to stop this sort of thing in the future.